BAY AREA DATELINES

Compiled from Examiner staff and wire reports

Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, June 11, 1996

Boy's organs given for transplantation Walnut Creek A 13-year-old Clayton boy who was hit by a motorist was pronounced dead from injuries he sustained in the accident and was scheduled to have his organs removed for donation, officials said.

A nursing supervisor at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek said the unidentified boy was pronounced dead at 1:14 p.m. Monday and would undergo surgery to remove his organs early Tuesday morning.

The boy was hit by the unidentified 68-year-old motorist on Saturday while riding his bicycle through the intersection of Alhambra Avenue and Forrest Way in Martinez, sustaining massive injuries to his body and head, Martinez police said.

The driver was not cited for the incident, which is still under police investigation.

BART-to-airport coalition forms San Francisco Bay Area labor, political and business heavyweights have joined forces to campaign for extension of BART to San Francisco International Airport.

"We want to keep the momentum going," said state Sen. Quentin Kopp, I-San Francisco, who has been the most dogged pursuer of the extension.

Backers must clear a few more hurdles before construction on the $1.2 billion project can begin: federal funding and a final OK later this month by the BART and SamTrans boards of directors.

Among those joining Kopp at City Hall on Monday to announce a coalition of BART-to-the-airport supporters were Mayor Brown, local labor leaders, San Mateo Supervisors Tom Huening and Michael Nevin, San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Kevin Shelley, San Francisco Airports Commission President Henry Berman, and BART Directors Dan Richard and James Fang.

Corporate leaders lending their support included Donald Fisher, chairman of the Gap; and Angelo Siracusa, president of the Bay Area Council, a business-funded regional think tank.

Fatal Hayward fire was suicide arson Hayward Fire investigators have determined that the fire that killed a Hayward woman and her 4-year-old daughter was deliberately set by the woman herself who had a history of depression.

Assistant Fire Marshal Mike Hyde of the Hayward Fire Department said: "It appears to us that she started the fire in three different locations in the house."

When firefighters arrived at the Thomas Avenue residence at 1:55 a.m. Saturday, they found all the doors and windows locked from the inside and the house engulfed in flames.

Two older children, who were asleep in the bedroom, were rescued, but firefighters found the bodies of the mother, Eden Gilliland, 40, and 4-year-old Carrie on the kitchen floor. Both were dead.

Jerry Gilliland, the woman's husband and father of the children, was at a friend's house about three blocks away at the time.

Police said they had been to the home on numerous occasions in the past over domestic arguments and that Eden Gilliland had also attempted suicide at least once previously.&lt;